Auralquiz

Auralquiz is a simple music quiz game for GNU/Linux, using your own music files. It is free software (as in freedom, as well as in price).

The game plays short pieces of music files from your folders (in Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Opus or MP3 formats), and presents a question and several answers about the current song. The fastest the answer, the more points you receive.

Up to 8 people can play in a turn-based mode.

In the highest difficulty level there are no answer buttons, and instead, you have to type the answer yourself.

I love the idea – but alas it doesn’t work here (0.8.1, Debian Sid, KDE SC 4.7.4). In the 1st question I can choose from the answers but have no sound. So I just click one of the buttons. Then I hear a short music sample for question 2, can answer it – and for question 3 there is no sound plus greyed out answer buttons. So I can only quit.

I’ve been notified about similar issues from people using the Phonon-GStreamer backend. Do you know which one you’re using? Try using Phonon-VLC backend as your primary backend, if you can, and see if it works better that way.

I guess you have the phonon-gstreamer backend, and for various reasons Auralquiz does not work right with it. You can install the phonon-vlc backend, and set it as the primary one.
If you don’t use the KDE Plasma Desktop, you might need to uninstall phonon-gstreamer to make phonon-vlc active.

Hello ! I just tried Auralquiaa and it i very nice. BUT, the mp3 are stopping playing after 1 second… and the countdown continues… but without any sound.
It is possible to get more than 1 second of playing ? Otherwise it is not uable 😦
I installed on Ubuntu 16.04 from the repo… can you correct the bug pleaaaase ?
Thank you !
Stéphane

Well, the point is that you only get a short piece of the file as a clue, then the sound stops.

However, 1 second is not right. You should get a few more seconds, depending on difficulty level.

Your problem might be related to the Phonon backend. Phonon is the technology used by Auralquiz to play sound files.
The available backends are usually “phonon-vlc” and “phonon-gstreamer”.
You might be using the Phonon-GStreamer backend, with has some issues. If so, uninstalling it and installing the Phonon-VLC backend instead might help.

I’ll release v0.9.0 soon, which includes some fixes. That might also help.